{"id":21265,"date":"2016-03-15T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21265"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:06:53","slug":"wapo-the-watch-blog-police-cameras-are-a-tool-its-how-we-use-this-tool-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21265","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Police cameras are a tool. It\u2019s how we use this tool that matters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2016\/03\/15\/police-cameras-are-a-tool-its-how-we-use-this-tool-that-matters\/\">&#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Police cameras are a tool. It\u2019s how we use this tool that matters<\/a> by Radley Balko: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s little question that police body cameras and dashboard cameras offer added transparency. They offer an independent narrative of disputed incidents. They can aid police training, to help prevent incidents like the one in the Moskos post. They can bring accountability, provided that they\u2019re implemented with the appropriate policies and rules to govern their use. But they aren\u2019t the be-all, end-all solution. They aren\u2019t irrefutable. And they can still be used to deceive, both by police and by the policed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Police cameras are a tool. It\u2019s how we use this tool that matters by Radley Balko: There\u2019s little question that police body cameras and dashboard cameras offer added transparency. They offer an independent narrative of disputed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}